Tag: Google Cloud

The absence of a common framework for assessing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), combined with the fact that no two CSPs are the same, complicates the process of selecting one that’s right for your organization. To help you work through this, we’re using this post to discuss seven basic factors you can use to identify a provider that can best match your business, technical, and operational needs.

In this post, we’re going to assume that you will be relying on public cloud infrastructure. There’s no reason to DIY (which can be costly, complex, and frustrating) when there are experts who can do it far better (no offense!). The shared responsibility model is such that you should be able to rely on cloud service providers to take care of the cloud itself while you focus on what’s in the cloud (your data and applications).

AWS has long ruled the cloud platform game. But today more and more companies are branching out and using additional providers as well. Often this isn’t a matter of replacing one with another, but of different business requirements (such as managing risk and costs) being suited to different cloud vendors. Other factors for using more than one provider center on the fact that vendors work to price their offerings competitively and continually add new features. Additionally, many organizations that run Windows are offered free Azure credits. So why not take advantage and reduce your overall cloud costs?

There’s nothing wrong with running a multi-cloud environment — in fact doing so may be part of a well-crafted strategy — but when you do so, you want to make sure that you are taking appropriate security precautions. In this post, we’ll cover five principles you should strive for when you make the move to a multi-cloud environment. But first, let’s take a look at the major players. Read more “5 Principles for Running Securely in a Multi-Cloud Environment”